Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 2 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 3 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure the inspectors did the best job they could , ’ says Mr Reed , choosing his words carefully , ‘ but the whole process is very undesirable , very unsatisfactory . |
| 5 | Madame 's fingers twisted the magnificent ruby she wore . |
| 6 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 7 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 8 | Before the Barcelona games Nike executives told the Daily Mirror they had lined up racing certs for a nationwide billboard blitz . |
| 9 | Transport police officers told the local MP it was difficult to effectively police deserted rural stretches of track . |
| 10 | Engines roaring , it swooped in to land , braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland . |
| 11 | Even here a word of caution is necessary , for although medieval writers employed the Roman calendar they sometimes reckoned the Kalend , None and Ide elements in reverse order ; so that , for example , 14 January might appear not as XIX Kal Feb but as Pridi Kal Feb ( prima die kalendarum Feb ) . |
| 12 | The military pardons dissipated the public support which the government had gained by its suppression of a military coup on Dec. 3 [ ibid . ] . |
| 13 | Then Cantona committed his second And if the masses shoe-horned onto the Vicarage Road terraces had the growing feeling it was to be Watford 's night , Cantona 's second howler of the night when Strachan 's cross found the darling of Elland Road unmarked again and just six yards out . |
| 14 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 15 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 16 | Sharon Hill , from Gloucester , died when bullets struck the mini bus she was travelling in . |
| 17 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 18 | The trilobites produced the mosaic eye which has been retained by the insects . |
| 19 | His enormous hands dwarfed the elegant menu which he was studying in apparent disbelief , and Peter Yeo noticed again , as Barton without rising extended one massive paw , that though the fingers were an ordinary length it was the width of the palms that made the hands so large . |
| 20 | Two of Sancton 's early dissenters earned the highest honour which Methodism has to confer on its preachers : Thomas and Samuel Jackson both became presidents of the Wesleyan Conference . |
| 21 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 22 | If others took the same decision it would spare the North selectors some uncomfortable choices . |
| 23 | others had the bloody bottle there 's no |
| 24 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 25 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |